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Vancouver’s Island fort

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson December 30, 2021 "Headquarters", Fort Victoria stories
Vancouver’s Island fort

This post is about the Vancouver’s Island fort that will soon be built and, eventually, named Fort Victoria. This series of posts began at https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/locating-fort-victoria/ and it continues on from…

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Thomas Lowe’s Sandwich Islands

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 14, 2021 HBC Transportation Systems, London Ship
Thomas Lowe’s Sandwich Islands

In this blogpost we are speaking of Thomas Lowe’s Sandwich Islands. As we know already, from the last Thomas Lowe post, the Sandwich Islands is modern-day Hawaii, and he and…

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A Long Winding Road

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson August 7, 2021 Fort Victoria stories, Headquarters
A Long Winding Road

A long winding road through history must be travelled before the Hudson’s Bay Company could build a new headquarters, on the southern end of Vancouver’s Island: but it was travelled,…

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Thomas Lowe at the Sandwich Islands

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson June 19, 2021 Hudson's Bay Company, London Ship
Thomas Lowe at the Sandwich Islands

In this post of the series on Thomas Lowe’s journey in the London Ship, Vancouver, he will reach the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii]. Or at least I hope he will. Let’s…

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Thomas Lowe sails the South Pacific

By Nancy Marguerite Anderson March 6, 2021 Hudson's Bay Company, London Ship
Thomas Lowe sails the South Pacific

At last, as you can see from the last post of this series, Thomas Lowe has sailed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, rounding Cape Horn during its summer…

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